ations of booty in the storming of
Seringapatam, and for their good conduct during the war. His lordship
and General Meadows even resigned their own share, in order that the
soldiers might have the more. Their conduct deserved reward, for though
they burned with impatience to revenge the wrongs which their countrymen
had received at the hands of Tippoo, yet when they found that Lord
Cornwallis had agreed to a treaty of peace, they rendered all due
obedience to his injunctions not to commit any violence, and to abstain
from making use of any kind of insulting expression towards a fallen
enemy. Even though fired upon by the Mysoreans after their own fire had
been suspended, the troops obeyed his commands to the very letter: a
proof of their admirable discipline, and their devotedness to their
general. As for Tippoo Sultaun, although humbled, he still remained the
same inveterate foe to the English as before. No act of kindness shown
to himself, or his captive sons, by Lord Cornwallis, could soften
his bitter resentment: every generous action shown towards him by
the conqueror was considered rather as an insult than as a proof of
friendship, and nothing in his conduct could justify the hope that peace
would be permanent.

PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

During this year the principles of the French revolution were more
clearly manifested to the world. Early in the year the state of foreign
affairs assumed a more menacing aspect. Austria was collecting troops,
and the only ultimatum on which the emperor would agree to discontinue
preparations, was the re-establishment of the French constitution on
the basis of the declaration of June, 1789; the restitution of their
property to the clergy; and the cession of Alsace to the German princes,
and of Avignon to the pope. But these terms were "like a summons
directed to the torrent, or a command to the whirlwind:" the assembly
replied to them by a declaration of war, to which Louis was compelled
to assent. Nor was this the only effect produced by the demands of the
Emperor of Austria. The assembly required of Louis that he should
freely resign himself to the current of the revolution, or be dethroned.
Influenced, however, by the queen and by Dumouriez, who finding himself
in office broke with the Girondists as he had previously with the
Constitutionalists, he fearlessly resisted their counsels. The
friendship of Dumouriez raised the drooping spirits of the old royalist